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Observation of fractional quantum Hall effect in an InAs quantum well

Applied Physics 2017-12-05 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The two-dimensional electron system in an InAs quantum well has emerged as a prime candidate for hosting exotic quasi-particles with non-Abelian statistics such as Majorana fermions and parafermions. To attain its full promise, however, the electron system has to be clean enough to exhibit electron-electron interaction phenomena. Here we report the observation of fractional quantum Hall effect in a very low disorder InAs quantum well with a well-width of 24 nm, containing a two-dimensional electron system with a density n=7.8×1011n=7.8 \times 10^{11} cm2^{-2} and low-temperature mobility 1.8×1061.8 \times 10^6 cm2^2/Vs. At a temperature of 35\simeq35 mK and B24B\simeq24 T, we observe a deep minimum in the longitudinal resistance, accompanied by a nearly quantized Hall plateau at Landau level filling factor ν=4/3\nu=4/3.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01220,
  title  = {Observation of fractional quantum Hall effect in an InAs quantum well},
  author = {Meng K. Ma and Md. Shafayat Hossain and K. A. Villegas Rosales and H. Deng and T. Tschirky and W. Wegscheider and M. Shayegan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01220},
  year   = {2017}
}